Film
The VICE Guide to North Korea
2008 · 58m · Documentary
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Overview
"Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. They finally said, “OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists.” At the airport, the North Korean consulate brought us to a restaurant and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, “Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn’t get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on…" -VICE Founder Shane Smith
Cast
Crew
- Jonah KaplanWriter
- Shane SmithProducer · Writer
- Eddy MorettiProducer
Details
- Release date
- July 3, 2008
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 58m
- Genres
- Documentary
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